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Specialising in optics and the motion of fluids, physicist George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903) was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge for over fifty years, President of the Royal Society, Master of Pembroke College and the most prominent religious scientist of his age. First published in 1893, Natural Theology contains the text of ten lectures he gave at Edinburgh. Stokes favoured the design argument for the existence of a Christian god, arguing against Darwinism. He believed the Bible to be true, though at times metaphorical. The lectures move from substantive observations on cosmology, electricity, gravity, ocular anatomy and evolution through to non sequiturs regarding providential design, human exceptionalism, the supernatural, spiritual immortality, and Christ's dual materiality and divinity. Fossilising a moment of impending shift in the history of ideas, these lectures highlight an intellectual dissonance in the Victorian scientific establishment.

A commentary written by the revered Assyrian bishop Isho'dad of Merv, an influential figure in the Eastern Church in the ninth century. Covering the gospels, this English translation was first published in 1911 by pioneering scholar Margaret Gibson and is a fascinating glimpse into the theology of its time.

Between 1878 and 1902, Constance E. Plumptre championed some of the most fascinating philosophical theories of the Victorian age. Volume 1 of her history of Pantheism (1878) tackles periods and theories as diverse as Brahminism and Scholasticism to provide an erudite but accessible introduction to Oriental, Greek and modern Pantheism.

In this lively three-volume account first published in 1843, the British adventurer and agent of the Bible Society, George Henry Borrow, describes his travels in Spain during the 1830s distributing the scriptures. The book's mixture of exotic travelogue and anti-Catholic sentiment proved very popular with early Victorian readers.

This is a two-volume translation by Clement Huart (1854-1926), a leading French Orientalist, of a fourteenth-century Persian text recording the lives of the founders of the order of whirling dervishes. Published in 1918-22, it provides fascinating insights into the origins of this branch of Islamic mysticism.

George Augustus Selwyn (1809-78) was the first Anglican bishop of New Zealand, and later bishop of Lichfield. His ministry helped to shape the form of the Anglican Communion and the relationship of the colonial churches to the Church of England. This 1879 biography was written by his chaplain.

In 1593 documents for a sequel to the Puritan work Parte of a Register were collected, but never published. Edited by the ecclesiastical historian Albert Peel (1886-1949) this study contains a list of these manuscripts, which provide valuable evidence of the concerns of the early Puritan movement in England.

This 1924 volume broke new ground by considering a collection of fragments of Manichaean texts that had been recently discovered in Turkestan. It describes the dualistic form of Christianity that thrived during the fourth and fifth centuries, and remains important for those studying heterodox movements in early Christianity.

This is a two-volume translation by Clement Huart (1854-1926), a leading French Orientalist, of a fourteenth-century Persian text recording the lives of the founders of the order of whirling dervishes. Published in 1918-22, it provides fascinating insights into the origins of this branch of Islamic mysticism.

In this two-volume set published in 1902, the writings of colonial American missionary David Brainerd help detail his life story and religious work amongst the Native Americans. Volume 2 contains Brainerd's journal retelling his missionary work with native peoples, together with correspondence and other religious writing.

Charles Christian Hennell (1809-1850) was a theological writer best known for his association with George Eliot. First published in 1838, this volume contains Hennell's deconstruction of the Bible to separate the historical character of Jesus from later myths. Hennell's 1839 work Christian Theism is also included in this volume.

Strauss' highly controversial The Life of Jesus applied strict historical methods to the gospel narratives and caused scandal by concluding that all miraculous elements were mythical and ahistorical. Volume 1 introduces the idea of 'de-mythology' and applies modern historical methods to the narratives of Jesus' birth and early life.

Presented in the form of a series of biographical essays, this 1845 history of Hebrew women traces a continuity from the biblical matriarchs to the Jewish women of Aguilar's own generation. Volume 1 focuses on the women of the Old Testament, starting with Eve and concluding with Hannah.

Presented in the form of a series of biographical essays, this 1845 history of Hebrew women traces a continuity from the biblical matriarchs to the Jewish women of Aguilar's own generation. Volume 2 continues with Old Testament and Talmudic heroines and concludes with a section on modern Jewish women.

This volume contains the Short Journal, the Itinerary Journal, and the Haistwell Journal of George Fox (1624-1691), the founder of the Religious Society of Friends. It was first published in 1925 to mark the tercentenary of Fox's birth. It is a key source for the origins of the Quaker movement.

This account of the radical ideas of George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, his travels through Europe, the West Indies and America was compiled from documents dictated by Fox himself. First published in 1952, it provides an intimate insight into the life and trials of a seventeenth-century religious reformer.

In 1593 documents for a sequel to the Puritan work Parte of a Register were collected, but never published. Edited by the ecclesiastical historian Albert Peel (1886-1949) this study contains a list of these manuscripts, which provide valuable evidence of the concerns of the early Puritan movement in England.

A commentary in Syriac on the gospels of Matthew and Mark, written by the revered Assyrian bishop Isho'dad of Merv, an influential figure in the Eastern Church in the ninth century. First published in 1911 by pioneering scholar Margaret Gibson, this is a detailed interpretation of the first two gospels.

A commentary in Syriac on the gospels of Luke and John, written by the revered Assyrian bishop Isho'dad of Merv, an influential figure in the Eastern Church in the ninth century. First published in 1911 by pioneering scholar Margaret Gibson, this is a detailed interpretation of the first two gospels.

A commentary in Syriac and English on Acts and the epistles of James, Peter and John, written by the revered Assyrian bishop Isho'dad of Merv, an influential figure in the Eastern Church in the ninth century. Translated and first published in 1913 by pioneering scholar Margaret Gibson.

A detailed and incisive commentary in Syriac on the Epistles of Saint Paul, written by the revered Assyrian bishop Isho'dad of Merv, an influential figure in the Eastern Church in the ninth century. Edited and first published in 1916 by pioneering New Testament scholar Margaret Gibson.

A detailed and incisive commentary in English on the Epistles of Saint Paul, written by the revered Assyrian bishop Isho'dad of Merv, an influential figure in the Eastern Church in the ninth century. Translated and first published in 1916 by pioneering New Testament scholar Margaret Gibson.

Documenting the massacre of monks in fourth century Egypt and telling the cautionary tale of hubristic stone-cutter Eulogius, this text in Arabic and Syriac was first published by Agnes Lewis in 1912. Including the full English translation, this is a volume of great theological and historical interest.

Published in 1845, the Essay is an important work from English clergyman John Henry Newman. Written during his own conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, it discusses how the development of Christian teaching over time in Rome and elsewhere was a natural response to human appropriation of God's transcendent truths.

In this two-volume 1896 work, Alan E. Brooke (1863-1939) edited the revised Greek text of Origen's landmark Commentary on John, a work originally written to rescue the gospel from the divergent interpretations of the Gnostics. Volume 1 discusses the manuscript tradition and provides some of the extant chapters.

Published in 1860, this book is the detailed record of the conference on Christian missions held in Liverpool in that year. It has a complete index of the subjects discussed which included the education and recruitment of missionaries, fundraising, female education and the consequences of the Indian Mutiny of 1857.

An indispensable text in the history of medieval Jewish-Christian relations, this work documents one of the first allegations of Jewish ritual murder. This 1896 edition includes an English translation and extensive introductory material by Augustus Jessop and M. R. James.

Eberhard Nestle (1851-1913) was a German biblical scholar known chiefly for his textual criticism of the New Testament. This text, first published in 1894 as part of the Studia Sinaitica, is a Syriac version of a Plutarch treatise on human virtue, accompanied by Nestle's typical careful translation and notes.

Agnes Lewis (1843-1926) was a biblical scholar credited with the discovery of a number of significant ancient manuscripts. This text from the monastic library of Saint Catherine, Mount Sinai, first published in 1900, is a translation of Syriac stories describing the lives of saintly women including Pelagia and Eugenia.

Agnes Lewis (1843-1926) was a biblical scholar credited with the discovery of a number of ancient manuscripts. This text from the monastic library of St Catherine, Mount Sinai, first published in 1900, is a collection of stories in Syriac describing the lives of saintly women including Pelagia and Eugenia.